Coronavirus update, July 21: Stanislaus has 8 more deaths. Adult ICU beds fill up
Here is the latest on the coronavirus outbreak from in and around Modesto and Stanislaus County.
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Eight more Stanislaus County residents have died from COVID-19, bringing the total to 71, the county Health Services Agency said Monday.
Twenty of the deaths were reported over the past seven days, the county’s online update stated. No details were available on the eight people who died most recently.
Since July 5, 27 deaths in Stanislaus County have been reported. On Monday, San Joaquin County’s death toll rose to 94 and Merced County announced seven more deaths, bringing its total to 22.
Stanislaus also listed at zero percent the number of intensive care unit beds available for adults in its five hospitals.
Positive tests in Stanislaus County stood at 6,508 as of Monday, when 164 more were reported. Another 44,220 residents have tested negative, and 3,130 are presumed to have recovered.
Stanislaus had gone several weeks into the pandemic until its first death was announced April 10. May and June brought relatively moderate numbers, but July brought an upsurge.
The deaths happened amid concerns about hospital capacity and poor efforts by some residents to slow the virus with social distancing, face coverings and other measures.
The county, the 16th most populous in California, ranked 16th in the number of deaths before Monday night’s announcement.
Monday’s positivity rate of 13.42% was up from the 9.47% on Sunday but well down from the high figures much of last week. The infection rate since the county started documenting data was 12.8% on Monday, unchanged from Sunday.
The rolling 14-day rate of infection stood at 21.13% as of Monday, compared with 21% the day before. The rolling seven-day rate of infection was 24.02% on Monday, down from 24.58% on Sunday.
The number of hospitalizations was 209 on Monday, up from 205 on Sunday. Among the five county hospitals, 34% of total beds are available, as are 25% of intensive care unit beds (none of them for adults) and 65% of ventilators.
Of those who tested positive, 55% are female and 45% male. Fourteen percent are 20 or younger, 20% are 21 to 30, 19% are 31 to 40, 17% are 41 to 50, 14% are 51 to 60, 7% are 61 to 70, 4% are 71 to 80, 4% are 81 to 90, and 2% are older than 90.
Though they make up 47 percent of the population, Latinos represented 73 percent of the positive cases.
Modesto has 2,170 positive cases, 829 are in Ceres, 772 are in Turlock, 271 are in Riverbank, 269 are in Patterson, 130 are in Oakdale, 117 are in Waterford, 85 are in Newman, and 60 are in Hughson. Of the cases in unincorporated areas, 429 are in supervisorial District 5, 395 are in District 3, which includes Salida, 242 are in District 2, 117 are in District 1, and 37 are in District 4.
- San Joaquin County has 94 COVID-19-related deaths among 8,321 cases.
- Merced County has 22 deaths among 2,694 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 101 positive cases and zero deaths.
- Mariposa County has 38 positive cases and one death.
As of Monday evening, there were 391,538 confirmed cases in California and 7,694 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 3,825,153 U.S. cases and 140,957 deaths.
Here is the state tracker.
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This story was originally published July 21, 2020 at 4:43 AM.
